how to declare an emergency

**n612ua** · 09-07-2004, 11:17 PM

You are 1000 miles away from your landing airport and have engine failure(s) and need to land soon. How do you declare an emergency so you can land at differnet airport?

Thanks

**chris_NZ** · 09-08-2004, 12:53 AM

I believe (and correct me if I'm wrong) that you would contact whoever's control you are under. This would usually be a 'center' controller. Large passenger flights would never NOT be in contact with some form of controller. You would announce a'pan pan pan' call which is an internationally recognised tranmission of distress.

I think thats right anyway. hope this helps,

Chris :)

**n612ua** · 09-08-2004, 01:06 AM

How do you announce a'pan pan pan'? Thanks

**flightsimmer747** · 09-08-2004, 01:30 AM

Hi
With fs9 atc you cannot declare an emergency there is however a program that will let you it's called Radar contact.

In the case of an engine failure in fs9 use your gps and look up the nearest airports that you can glide too and land.
Remember you should always have an alternate airport in mind during a flight!

There is no button or function for pan.
Btw the other word used in real life over the radio for emergencies is "Mayday".

Hope this helps!

**flyerBoy** · 09-08-2004, 02:22 AM

Yeah but in real life airliners would have some alternate airports that can handle that jet.. Ie flight from Mel-->Syd could have an emergency landing at Canberra, or return back to melbourne...

**Rockcliffe** · 09-08-2004, 09:21 AM

To clarify, "Pan" means I have an inflight emergency but I am not in any immediate danger. Losing an engine on a multi-engine aircraft would be a "pan" call, for example.
"Mayday" is a distress call and indicates the aircraft is going down.
Hope this helps.
Blair
CYOW

**drumex** · 09-08-2004, 09:44 AM

Where do these words come from, "mayday" and "pan"?

**Rockcliffe** · 09-08-2004, 10:51 AM

Here's what I get from a Google search.

Mayday
This distress call is a phonetic representation of the French m'aider, literally help me. In this case the change from the French is deliberate and not a result of corruption over the years. Its use dates to the 1927 International Radio Telegraph Convention. (Or at least that's when its use was codified; it may have been in unofficial use prior to that.) (from www.wordorigins.org/wordorm.htm)

"Pan" is pronounced "Pon" and comes from the French "en panne," which means breakdown or mishap.